Empia

What Empia does

Empia GmbH is a German private limited company (GmbH) headquartered in Bad Schwartau, Germany, operating as a real estate brokerage and consulting firm. The company provides discrete marketing and transaction services for commercial and residential real estate, connecting property owners with qualified investors and offering a unified suite of services including property valuation, investor matching, due diligence support, and financing coordination. Its service portfolio covers diverse property types including commercial real estate, shopping centers, specialist retail, residential portfolios, senior residences, office buildings, hotel properties, and wind turbines.

Empia serves a multi-segment customer base comprising private investors, institutional investors, real estate companies, housing associations, developers, and banks, with stated operating reach across 10 countries: Germany, Denmark, the UK, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Poland, Luxembourg, Monaco, and Israel. Distribution is direct via consultative advisory engagements delivered by the management team, with services spanning the full transaction lifecycle from market analysis and appraisal through investor identification, presentation, due diligence monitoring, and financing closure.

The firm is privately held and management-controlled by two Geschäftsführer (Managing Directors), Katrin Marwitz and Matthias Knorr, supported by a two-person operations team. Technology is minimal — a standard corporate website with contact forms, SSL/TLS encryption, and external hosting by jamp internetlösungen under a GDPR-compliant data processing agreement. Revenue is generated through transaction-fee-based brokerage and advisory services; no pricing, deal volume, or revenue figures are publicly disclosed. There is no disclosed external funding, no parent company, and no subsidiary structure.

Name

Empia

Legal name

Empia GmbH

Website

https://empia.de

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Empia GmbH is a German real estate brokerage and consulting firm that connects property owners with qualified investors through discrete marketing, valuation, and transaction advisory services across 10 European countries and Israel.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Bad Schwartau

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Real Estate Brokerage/Advisory Services: The company generates revenue through real estate transaction advisory and brokerage services, connecting property sellers with qualified investors and providing comprehensive support throughout the purchase process.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

Empia GmbH is a real estate brokerage and consulting firm that manages the sale of high-quality commercial and residential properties on behalf of owners. The company provides discrete property marketing, qualified market analysis and appraisal, identification of suitable investors from an international network, professional property presentation, due diligence support, and financing coordination through trusted finance-sector contacts throughout the entire transaction process.

Product overview

Empia GmbH is a real estate brokerage and consulting firm based in Bad Schwartau, Germany. The company provides discrete marketing and transaction services for commercial and residential real estate, offering a unified suite of services including property valuation, investor matching, due diligence support, and financing consultation. Their service portfolio covers diverse property types including commercial real estate, shopping centers, specialist stores, local shopping centers, residential portfolios, senior residences, office buildings, hotel properties, and wind turbines. The company serves private investors, institutional investors, real estate companies, housing associations, developers, and banks across Germany and international markets including Denmark, UK, Switzerland, Israel, Netherlands, Belgium, Poland, Monaco, and Luxembourg.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Real Estate Brokerage and Advisory Services

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Financial Contacts/BankscoreOthersEstablished solid and trusted contacts in the finance sector who provide financing solutions for real estate projects. These partners offer experience and economically sound conditions for project realization.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves1 record

Expansion highlights3 records

Broad incumbents

• CBRE Group: World's largest commercial real estate services firm offering investment properties sales, advisory, and financing coordination; overlaps with Empia on commercial and capital-markets transactions for European institutional clients.
• Knight Frank: Global real estate consultancy with strong European residential and commercial investment-sales practices; overlapping with Empia in cross-border European deal flow and investor matching for private and institutional clients.
• Colliers International: Global real estate services and investment firm with European capital-markets presence serving institutional investors; comparable to Empia on commercial property transactions and financing coordination across European markets.
• Savills: Global real estate services firm with established European investment-advisory and capital-markets practices; comparable to Empia in serving institutional investors on commercial property transactions across multiple European countries.
• Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL): Global real estate services and investment-advisory firm with capital markets, brokerage, and investor-matching services that overlap with Empia's transaction advisory offering, serving institutional investors across Europe.
• Cushman & Wakefield: Global real estate services firm offering investment sales, advisory, and valuation across European markets; comparable to Empia on commercial real estate transaction advisory and investor matching.

Direct peers

• Von Poll Immobilien: German boutique real estate brokerage focused on premium and commercial properties with a discrete, advisory GTM; directly comparable to Empia in target clientele and personalized service model, with overlapping European geographic reach.
• Engel & Völkers: German-headquartered international real estate brokerage with a consultative, advisory-led model; comparable to Empia in client segments (private and institutional investors) and cross-border European deal flow, though materially larger in scale and brand.
• Aigner Immobilien: Northern German boutique real estate firm offering investment-brokerage and advisory services for commercial and residential properties; comparable to Empia in regional German presence and high-value transaction advisory focus.
• Ziegert Immobilien: Berlin-based German boutique brokerage and advisory firm focused on premium and commercial real estate transactions; comparable to Empia in boutique positioning and high-value property focus, though concentrated in a single German metro.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/empia-gmbh

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles4 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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